Newsletter of the Australian UFO Abduction Study Centre

History

The Newsletter of the Australian UFO Abduction Study Centre was the bulletin of the AUASC, a mid-1990s Australian research operation centred on abduction-case investigation. The archive holds Volume 2 Number 2 and Volume 2 Number 3. Keith Basterfield, one of the longest-serving Australian civilian-research investigators and the editor of multiple data-driven Australian UFO publications across his career, is named as the principal contributor across both issues. Peter Khoury, the Sydney-based abductee figure whose 1992 hair-sample case became one of the more documented Australian abduction reports of the period, contributed the conference report in Volume 2 Number 3.

The Centre's editorial reach across the two surviving issues spans Western Australia (Basterfield's nine-case Western Australian abduction catalogue covering 1968 to 1993, including the Noranda entity encounter, Waroona Dam, Beldon bedroom visitor, and Two Rocks abductions) through to New South Wales (the March 1995 UFOESA conference at the State Library of New South Wales) and into Victoria (the Kelly Cahill Dandenong Foothills encounter, one of the foundational Australian multi-witness abduction cases). The newsletter's geographical reach reflects the centralising role the AUASC was attempting to play in mid-1990s Australian abduction research.